Have you seen the Nat And Lo video series from Google employees Natalie Hammeland Lorraine Yurshansky? It's an interesting collection of shorts that explore some of the lesser-known projects going on inside the company - the pair use Google's famous "20% time" allocation to produce and release them on their YouTube channel. They actually broke the news of the new Android Marshmallow name by documenting the "making of" the official statue, and now they're back to explore the history of Android's Easter eggs.

Dedicated Android users (and Android Police readers) are no doubt already familiar with these - they're the little goodies and games you get for diving into the Settings menu and clicking on the Android version number. Nat and Lo went all the way back to Gingerbread to find the origin of the Easter eggs, where software engineer Dianne Hackborn included a friend's "zombie Gingerbread" painting in the OS. Since then the various animations and mini-games have been created and implemented by another Google software engineer, Dan Sandler.

Nat and Lo won't show you the new Marshmallow Easter egg, but we will (because spoiling crap like this is kind of our job). It's a modified version of the Flappy Bird clone game we first saw in Lollipop.

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I discovered their channel about a week ago and I have to say it is very interesting

navjot

the new game also allows multiplayer and isn't nearly as difficult as the lollipop version. it's pretty cool.

Alwin Crasto

Click on the video annotation at 2:04 in the video to go to a private video where they show how the Marshmallow Easter egg differs from the Lollipop one. You can actually turn it into a group game and add multiple flappy droids as shown in that video.

is it me or did the guy leave a hint in the air that there are MOAR eastereggs?? (@ 0:35~)

Maxr1998

Thought the same, yes :O
Well, there is this UserManager.isUserAGoat() function as well, but apart fron that?

YouNex

Easter Egg has multiplayer on tablets ! (N9)

ThatBabyAintMine

Multiplayer on phones as well (N6 and N5)

d

Meh. That Flappy Bird game sucks. Give us a Pac Man clone or something.

Maxr1998

You evil sobs! Spoiling the crap out of me -_-
I wanted to discover the new one myself, I skipped every article on the easter eggs at first, I even looked away when they clicked the marshmallow icon multiple times :(